I overheard on the radio about this Australian company who is rewarding returning mothers to their workforce by paying them Double their salary when they return to work, for the first 6 weeks. My first impression was – “Oh hell No – don’t let any of my female employees find out about this!” For those [...]
In the corporate world everyone is a critic! Everyone! We’ve gotten really good at a learned behavior – no longer can we send out a final product the first time. Why? Because everyone wants to trash it and change it – so it can be this really nice piece of Vanilla! Welcome to Corporate America. [...]
Fistful of Talent – which I’m proud to be a member of – is releasing it’s Top 25 HR and Recruiting Blogs. What’s really cool about this list – unlike some other lists I have poetically mentioned in prior posts – is this isn’t made up by some random analysis, of random metrics – this [...]
In what is probably the most anticipated eBook release of 2012 the The 8 Man Rotation crew (Matt Stollack, Steve Boese, Lance Haun, Kris Dunn and I) today release to the world version two of our most famous HR/Sports related blog posts of 2011: The 8 Man Rotation – the 2011 Season. The forward is [...]
“Linsanity” has taken over New York and the NBA! Do you even know what it is? Let’s begin with some background – Linsanity refers to Jeremy Lin the up-start Point Guard for the New York Knicks which seems to have materialized out of thin air. How up-start? In his first 4 NBA starts, with the [...]
About a year ago Forbes had an article, Top Executive Recruiters Agree There Are Only 3 True Job Interview Questions, that shared the “wisdom” of a handful of Executive Dinosaurs Recruiters on the only things that you should really have to ask a candidate. There 3 questions where: 1. Can you do the job? 2. [...]
I’m not a fan of the Dallas Cowboys but they have a number of quotes inside their locker room used to motivate their players. One of those quotes has stuck with me: “Don’t Confuse Routine, with Commitment” If you’ve been around sports long enough, you realize the truth to these words. It is so easy [...]
I need to catch up on my HR/Sports related posts! My teammates over at the 8 Man Rotation are probably feeling like I’m not pulling my weight lately, and what better way to get back in their good graces but to throw out a Tebow post! So, the big news from John Elway over at [...]
Dollars for donuts, Fast Company is the best publication out their for anyone in the business world! They hit a home run in my book recently with the article: An HR Lesson from Steve Jobs – If you want Change Agents, Hire Pirates! “Why? Because Pirates can operate when rules and safety nets breakdown.” More [...]
A couple of years ago my parents house burned down. They were away on vacation and lighting struck the roof. Before the fire department could get there and put it out, most of the house was destroyed. 60+ years of memories and possessions, gone. In hindsight, it was a bit of a blessing, there [...]
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